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Updated: May 28, 2025
I'm Goody Two-sticks, I am. You know very well that one of my legs isn't worth anything at all." "Ha!" croaked Jabez Potter, eyeing her with his usual frown, "I didn't bring any canes; because why? There weren't any given me. They're not in the wagon."
Everybody who drove by and saw her sitting on the porch, or wheeling herself, or being wheeled by Ruth, about the paths, had something to say to her, or waved a hand at her, and Mercy Curtis began to be pleasant mannered. She hobbled around her room more on the "two-sticks" Uncle Jabez had made for her; but she never liked to have even Ruth see her at these exercises.
I have been out once behind Dr. Davison's red and white mare, to see Aunt Alviry. We just gabbled about you all the time. Your pullets are laying. Tell Helen 'Hullo! for me. I expect to see you soon, though that is, if arrangements can be made to billet me with somebody who doesn't mind having a Goody Two-Sticks around. "Now, good-bye, Ruthie, "From your fidgetty friend, "MERCY CURTIS."
"They say," observed Fowler, the star man of The Patriot, "he covers his assignment in taxicabs." "He gets the news," murmured Mallory, summing up in that phrase all the encomiums which go to the perfect praise of the natural-born reporter. "And he writes it," put in Van Cleve of The Courier. "Lord, how that boy can write! Why, a Banneker two-sticks stands out as if it were printed in black-face."
Ah! if Mercy was going with you, I'd think the party quite complete." "What do you hear from her, Doctor?" questioned Ruth, eagerly. "My little Goody Two-sticks is hopping around pretty lively. She will come home in a few days. Too bad she cannot see you before you go. But then perhaps you'll see her, after all." "What do you mean?" demanded Helen, looking sharply at the physician.
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